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The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.542094409034
EAN: 9780520087729
ISBN: 0520087720
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 305
Publication Date: January 13, 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Review:
In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease--ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor--owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class.
Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.
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Rating: - A very impressive historical treatment
This book is well-written, persuasive, and very impressive. Highly recommended.
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